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The Interfax News Agency, a Russian news company, reports the Chairman of Lukoil has died after falling out of a six floor window. Ravil Maganov, 67, died at the Central Clinic Hospital, a facility known for treating Russian elites.
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"The incident occurred around 07:00 am Moscow time in the Central Clinical Hospital ... The man fell out of the sixth-floor window and died as a result of his injuries," a source told TASS…
Russia's second largest oil company made headlines in early March after speaking out against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"The Board of Directors of LUKOIL expresses herewith its deepest concerns about the tragic events in Ukraine. Calling for the soonest termination of the armed conflict, we express our sincere empathy for all victims, who are affected by this tragedy," reads a statement from the board of directors to shareholders, staff and customers published March 3.
"We strongly support a lasting ceasefire and a settlement of problems through serious negotiations and diplomacy,” added the statement.
Lukoil produces more than 2% of the world's crude oil and employs more than 100,000 people
Some accounts hint at a suicide. Another says he fell from a balcony while getting a smoke. Such incidents are increasingly common in Putin’s Russia.
CNBC says eight Russian oil executives appear to have met untimely ends lately. A few more, and they rival the number of Russian generals killed in Ukraine.
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In a statement, Lukoil said he died following a severe illness. The company credited his managerial talent with helping the company become one of the world’s leading oil producers, including by developing new fields in the Caspian and Baltic seas and boosting production in mature fields in West Siberia.
He was named chairman in 2020 after previously leading the company’s upstream activities.
Alexander Subbotin, a 43-year-old Lukoil executive, was found dead in a shaman’s home in a city northeast of Moscow in May.
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A day after the invasion began in February, Alexander Tyulyakov, a deputy head of gas monopoly Gazprom’s treasury, was found dead in the garage of his home in Leninsky, an elite St Petersburg suburb.
Investigators’ working theory was that Tyulyakov’s death was the second suicide in the same suburb in less than a month, after Leonid Shulman, an executive at Gazprom’s transport subsidiary, was found dead in his bathroom in late January.
In July, police found Yuri Voronov, the head of a shipping company that contracts for Gazprom dead in a swimming pool at his home in the same suburb near St Petersburg from a gunshot wound to the head.
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Several Russian energy oligarchs have died in unusual circumstances in recent months:
- The body of millionaire Novatek former manager Sergei Protosenya was found alongside his wife and daughter at a Spanish villa in April
- A former vice-president of Gazprombank, Vladislav Avayev, was found dead with his wife and daughter in their Moscow flat, also in April
- In May, a former Lukoil tycoon Alexander Subbotin died of heart failure, reportedly after seeking alternative treatment from a shaman.